Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-04-02
AT HOME AND ABROAD.
The News of all Countries Gathered by
Press Agents and Sent Over the
Gable and TELEGRAPH Wires.
Carefully Complied for Our Readers.
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PiTrsBgne, March eat 10 o'clock to-
morrow the pattern makers employed in forty
seven shops in this city aud Allegheny will
present q demand 10 their employers for a
half holiday on Saturday. At the same time
the pattern makers in Chicago, Baltimore,
Cincinnati, Cleveland and other places will
present the same demand They nov have
sixty hours per week and wish to reduce to
Hfty-ive.
BALTIMORE, March 2S.-The elevator fell
in Marburg Bros. tobacco factory to-day.
Fred Weber, aged 81, and John Wehrhouse,
aged Is, were fatally injured.
New YORK, March % The Herald states
that a local assembly OF Knights OF Labor
has been formed to be made up Of newspaper
men. Every morning paper In the city is rep
resented.
PivTsBUae, March 25.--A frigh .ful accident
occurred between u and / O'Clock this morn
ing on the Pittsburg, FIT. Wayne and Chicago
railway, nesr Letoria, about thirty miles
from this city. The day express from Chi
cago, due in this city at $40 a. m, was tele-
scopcd by d freight train running at almost
full speed. The engineer of the express was
killed and a dozen or more people we've In
lured. When on the heavy grade between
Salem and Letonia the engineer OF the ex-
press discovered the air breaks out of order
and stopped the train to examine the cause.
He crawled under the tender To remove the
broken air pipe. The faeman was sent back,
R.s - 49, $780,. a-l- m F.,- .nrla x.haY, .fn
freight appeared around the curve close at
hand, and before anything could be done to
prevent the accident 1t crashed into the rear
Of the express. The passengers were taken
out through the windows.
B~RooKLrx, X. Y, March % Especial from
Fire Island says the French steamer Scotia is
ashore near Blue Point. She has a large mum.
Der Of passengers on board. The life saving
crew have a line to her but owing to the
heavy sea none on hoard have been taken of.
Scotia sailed from Marseilles February 90 via
Gibraltar for New York. Among the passen-
gers are l 600 italian imported laborers.
When the steamer struck several hundred
passengers rushed out on deck and II panic
ensued, which the officers and crew were
powerlees TO prevent, women shrieked and
fell on their knees imploring aid. The carry
ing away Of masts by the heavy sea added to
the terror. The vessel settled in loose sand
and every sea makes a clean breach over her
Gecks. The high winds which prevails pre-.
vents the life saving crew from making any
attempts at rescue.
BUCHAREST, March q "A dispatch from
Rustchuk says that a serious revolt has broker
olt In Pleyna and Widen, and that the re
bells have been In full possession Of these
places for the past three days.
BLsB foISy, long ISLAND, March e.
When day dawned the Scotia was lying easy,
with her bow In the sand. Anything like q
heavy Wind last night must have caused heavy
loss Of life. The revenue cutter Grant las
near the stranded vessel all night ard contin
uously burned rockets. The passengers
passed a miserable night on deck. The vesse,
leaked but steam pumps were kept going
The sea is still too choppy to permit the trans
fer Of passengers to barges In waiting.